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the government can execute people. the government can execute people. and when you go into a civilized society the idea is that only the government can use violence -- >> let me interrupt here. i think we're drifting slightly off the point. because here's my response. i think most people in this room have no issue with americans having a gun at home to defend themselves. i come back, scottie, to what i said earlier. what is the purpose, what is the need of an ar-15 which can have a magazine of 100 bullets? nobody can give me any reason why a civilian needs that. your explanation appears to be you fear a tyrannical government attacking you. >> because i have the right. that's my first explanation. i have the right. hundreds of thousands of men and women for the last 250 years have died for me to have that right. >> to have an ar-15? >> to have any gun. >> why do you need an ar-15? >> because i do want to protect my family and god forbid something happens in this country -- piers, we have $16 trillion in debt. our economy is teetering. what would happen i
the government can execute people. the government can execute people. and when you go into a civilized society the idea is that only the government can use violence -- >> let me interrupt here. i think we're drifting slightly off the point. because here's my response. i think most people in this room have no issue with americans having a gun at home to defend themselves. i come back, scottie, to what i said earlier. what is the purpose, what is the need of an ar-15 which can have a...
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just to clarify -- >> governments go corrupt. >> just to clarify you believe an american government in the modern age is going to turn tyrannical? >> i have a right to be able to own a gun just in case. >> i want to clarify what you're saying to me. you would need an ar-15 to protect yourself against your own government? >> tomorrow we have 19 executive orders coming down. i wouldn't say that's a tyrannic a. l government but kind of sounds like they're mandates. we've had natural disasters where police have cleared out of those cities and the people that had weapons were safe. we don't know what's going to happen today. we might have a bright, sunny america. who is to say what will happen in the future? >> how about this one? you're a young gay couple or young interracial couple in a rural area and the next morning there's a kl a. n march downtown. the next night you go home and you wonder what the night holds and what the next several weeks hold. i would venture that you could talk with a variety of people in that context and they would say, i think i would like a gun. and those peopl
just to clarify -- >> governments go corrupt. >> just to clarify you believe an american government in the modern age is going to turn tyrannical? >> i have a right to be able to own a gun just in case. >> i want to clarify what you're saying to me. you would need an ar-15 to protect yourself against your own government? >> tomorrow we have 19 executive orders coming down. i wouldn't say that's a tyrannic a. l government but kind of sounds like they're mandates....
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you were talking about debt and deficit and government spending 15, 20 years ago when nobody was that much focused on it in washington, but now they really are. here is a chance for you to take all you learned, what you learned on the way up, on the way down, in congress, in the governorship, and apply it to what is really the debate of our times. if you look, we're having a new fiscal crisis it seems every couple months. we had the debt ceiling, the fiscal crisis, and that's really the tip of the iceberg that is coming our way based on unbelievable demographics and unbelievably unsustainable government spending. what i want to do is take what i learned and hopefully apply it to again a great conundrum that now exists in washington, which is how do we get our financial house in order? >> i wish you all the very best. thank you for joining me again tonight. it's a pleasure to talk to you as it was last time. i genuinely wish you well. i'm glad you're making another go at this. good luck with it. >> i appreciate it, thanks. >>> a critic who says newtown changed everything, but the nra d
you were talking about debt and deficit and government spending 15, 20 years ago when nobody was that much focused on it in washington, but now they really are. here is a chance for you to take all you learned, what you learned on the way up, on the way down, in congress, in the governorship, and apply it to what is really the debate of our times. if you look, we're having a new fiscal crisis it seems every couple months. we had the debt ceiling, the fiscal crisis, and that's really the tip of...
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when you ask do you want the government to ban certain things, you get quite another answer. and that's because we have a sense of not just of equality in the country but fairness. >> you've been laughing here. what's amusing here? >> what's amusing to me is we're making such a big deal about it. we all live our lives, right? i think on a day-to-day basis, we accept the people around us. we have to go to work, we have to shop, we go to the gym, wherever. the fact that we're making a big deal about the president using the word "gay" is crazy. that is absolutely crazy. >> there's a big deal to be made here which is that only in nine states can i get married. you can get married in all the states. >> i'm not saying there's not stupidly. >> that's a big deal. not just about him using gay in his inaugural remarks, this is about him saying on that issue, that's not fair, that's not equal rights. >> imagine how it would be -- imagine how it would be if actually you could be a black man or woman in america and only have your rights recognized in a number of states. people would find
when you ask do you want the government to ban certain things, you get quite another answer. and that's because we have a sense of not just of equality in the country but fairness. >> you've been laughing here. what's amusing here? >> what's amusing to me is we're making such a big deal about it. we all live our lives, right? i think on a day-to-day basis, we accept the people around us. we have to go to work, we have to shop, we go to the gym, wherever. the fact that we're making a...
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they learned the hard way when government came to a grinding halt. and that's when they got in a room together. i would like to see the speaker and the president get in a room. i think they've been equally to blame in many ways for this impasse between them in the last four years. i don't want to see them do it the official way. you have a democratic senate, a republican congress, i don't see how stuff gets done. >> the 1996 re-election of bill clinton basically settled the debates of '95 and '96. so you go into '97, bill clinton and newt gingrich destied politics are behind them and they cut a deal. was his victory going to break the fever in the republican party? in other words, were republicans, if obama wins going to realize that pure obstructionism wasn't a winning strategy? and i think the initial evidence is no, the fever hasn't been broken. if you look at the fiscal -- the way the fiscal cliff went down in december, not a very encouraging sign for moving forward. i think, you know, this week, the republicans have decided they're not going to
they learned the hard way when government came to a grinding halt. and that's when they got in a room together. i would like to see the speaker and the president get in a room. i think they've been equally to blame in many ways for this impasse between them in the last four years. i don't want to see them do it the official way. you have a democratic senate, a republican congress, i don't see how stuff gets done. >> the 1996 re-election of bill clinton basically settled the debates of '95...
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. >> as a government -- >> talks about education, it is axiomatic to be competitive in the world, we have to do a better job on education. we have to control our energy in the future and we've got to develop new sources of energy. that's axiomatic. we have to invest in research and development and stay on the cutting edge of innovation. all these things are a part of developing the kind of economy in which people have their best shot. >> i've never seen the president quite as emotionally moved as i saw him after sandy hook and this is an issue that we have carried a lot on my show but when i saw what he said the other day and the proposals put forward, executive order and with congress, i was so impressed by the boldness and the courage of the leadership and then the reality check. within minutes, people popping up on both sides saying, well, of course, he can't through an assault weapons ban. >> we'll see. >> today, a young teenage boy killed five people with an assault weapon. the weekend, we had people injured at gun shows with guns. the irony not lost on anybody on gun appreciati
. >> as a government -- >> talks about education, it is axiomatic to be competitive in the world, we have to do a better job on education. we have to control our energy in the future and we've got to develop new sources of energy. that's axiomatic. we have to invest in research and development and stay on the cutting edge of innovation. all these things are a part of developing the kind of economy in which people have their best shot. >> i've never seen the president quite as...
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ways for more of a fringe when it comes to this notion of people being armed in case an overweaning government comes to get them. i think the vast majority of gun owners understand there's reasonable steps that we need to take. >> i agree with you. it will be a big day tomorrow. two-day extravaganza. thank you for joining me. it's rare encounter of all three of you on television. thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> good to be with you. >> a little piece of senior aide history. we'll have a historical perspective on what may come up tomorrow. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. to volunteer to help those in need. when a twinge of back pain surprises him. morning starts in high spirits, but there's a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long day of helping others, h
ways for more of a fringe when it comes to this notion of people being armed in case an overweaning government comes to get them. i think the vast majority of gun owners understand there's reasonable steps that we need to take. >> i agree with you. it will be a big day tomorrow. two-day extravaganza. thank you for joining me. it's rare encounter of all three of you on television. thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> good to be with you. >> a little piece of senior...